The world as we know has been forgotten. A decade after a global epidemic, those who remain suffer from lasting effects of the virus – retrograde and anterograde amnesia. The survivors navigate a decaying landscape, unable to recall the past or create new memories. Each nds his own way to cope with life in a perpetual present, where meaning must be experienced moment by moment. By looking at a vision of the world without memory, Embers considers if our humanity is one thing that is impossible to forget.